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Answer: Diagon Alley. Disney has been playing a weak defensive game against their rivals since the Living Seas opened in the 80s.

That Zugspitze-themed roller coaster that was on the drawing boards for the Germany pavilion probably would have gone a long way to changing people's original opinion of EPCOT.

My memory of it... probably? There was nothing in particular that would have obviously dated the ride, it was just a classic Disney dark ride, filled the usual details and visual effects. It was definitely much more engaging and whimsical than the current iteration of the ride. Some of the...

I have a vague memory of doing a canoe trip at Fort Wilderness a long time ago. Did I invent this memory or was/are these tours offered? For years, I also though I had invented a memory of swimming on a beach at Bay Lake, but both the internet and and old family photo have verified that this...

I have a trip scheduled for next month that I booked months ago. I bought a 5 day ticket without park hopper and with the water park option. It looks like Disney is no longer selling this combination, although they are still honoring it. However, I don't remember exactly what this add-on...

Area of construction between Germany and China. Google Earth's images are several years out of date, so I assume whatever they built is now complete. Anyone know what this was?

Logged onto both and I still couldn't find the payment option. I decided just to call.

So of course, when I'm looking for something the Disney chatbot isn't working... Anyway, I'm trying to make a payment for an upcoming trip on MyDisneyExperience. My card is loaded, as is my reward points card, but I can't find a link anywhere to actually make the payment. Where is the payment...

Allow me to play the Devil's advocate here... Is appealing to comic book fans alone enough to ensure the success of potential tent-pole movies? Not that there can't be quite a bit of cross-over between comic fans and "normies" (for lack of a better word), but from my observations, some of the...

After hearing the Hot Dog Dance song nearly every day, multiple times a day, for the past few years, I'm ready for How Far I'll Go, You're Welcome and Shiny.

That last one is big news for anyone with pre-schoolers in the house. Mickey Mouse Clubhouse has been playing on an almost constant loop in my house for the past several years. My kids had no interest at all in Mickey Mouse Funhouse (seemed designed with the sole intention of selling toys), so...

Read the room, Rian. Do like we all did as kids, play out your own Star Wars ideas with the toys. At least then, your bad ideas don't get shared with the world and become canon, like my scenario as a 7 year old that had ewoks flying x-wings.

George Lucas was always best with broad outlines and story arcs, but he needed other people to write the dialogue and direct the actors. So, a "treatment" from him could have included some good material, it would have just needed to be worked out by someone with the right talent. Which...

I rewatched it recently and it really struck me how well the cinematography captured the look and feel of being in an extremely cold environment... that kind of grey-white hue that the air takes on. And this was before digital color grading existed.

Would that have been a first with, an actor playing the same character animated and in live action?